エレミヤ書 52
1 ゼデキヤは王となったとき二十一歳であったが、エルサレムで十一年世を治めた。母の名はハムタルといい、リブナのエレミヤの娘である。
Zedekiah was a son of twenty-one years when he first began to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
2 ゼデキヤはエホヤキムがすべて行ったように、主の目の前に悪事を行った。
And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, in accord with all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 たしかに、主の怒りによって、エルサレムとユダとは、そのみ前から捨て去られるようなことになった。そしてゼデキヤはバビロンの王にそむいた。
And so the fury of the Lord was toward Jerusalem, and toward Judah, even until he cast them away from his face. And Zedekiah drew away from the king of Babylon.
4 そこで彼の治世の九年十月十日に、バビロンの王ネブカデレザルはその軍勢を率い、エルサレムにきて、これを包囲し、周囲に塁を築いてこれを攻めた。
And it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, he and his entire army, came against Jerusalem. And they besieged it, and they built fortifications against it, on every side.
5 こうしてこの町は攻め囲まれて、ゼデキヤ王の十一年にまで及んだが、
And the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
6 その四月九日になって、町の中の食糧は、はなはだしく欠乏し、その地の民は食物を得ることができなくなった。
Then, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, a famine gripped the city. And there was no nourishment for the people of the land.
7 そして町の城壁はついに打ち破られたので、兵士たちはみな逃げ、夜のうちに、王の園の近くの、二つの城壁の間の門から町をのがれ出て、カルデヤびとが、町を攻め囲んでいるうちに、アラバの方へ落ちて行った。
And the city was broken, and all the men of war fled, and they departed from the city at night by way of the gate which is between the two walls, and which leads to the king’s garden, while the Chaldeans were besieging the city all around, and they went away by the road that leads to the wilderness.
8 しかしカルデヤびとの軍勢は王を追って行って、エリコの平地でゼデキヤに追いついたが、彼の軍勢がみな散って彼のそばを離れたので、
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king. And they overtook Zedekiah in the desert which is near Jericho. And all of his companions fled away from him.
9 カルデヤびとは王を捕え、ハマテの地のリブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに引いていったので、王は彼の罪を定めた。
And when they had captured the king, they led him away to the king of Babylon at Riblah, which is in the land of Hamath. And he spoke a judgment against him.
10 すなわちバビロンの王はゼデキヤの子たちをその目の前で殺させ、ユダのつかさたちをことごとくリブラで殺させ、
And the king of Babylon cut the throats of the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the leaders of Judah at Riblah.
11 またゼデキヤの目をつぶさせた。そしてバビロンの王は彼を鎖につないでバビロンへ連れて行き、その死ぬ日まで獄屋に入れて置いた。
And he plucked out the eyes of Zedekiah, and he bound him with shackles, and the king of Babylon led him away to Babylon, and he placed him in the prison house, even until the day of his death.
12 五月十日に、それはバビロンの王ネブカデレザルの世の十九年であったバビロンの王に仕える侍衛の長ネブザラダンはエルサレムに、はいって、
Then, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, which is the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, arrived. And he was standing before the king of Babylon at Jerusalem.
13 主の宮と王の宮殿を焼き、エルサレムのすべての家を焼いた。彼は大きな家をみな焼きはらった。
And he set fire to the house of the Lord, and to the house of the king, and to all the houses of Jerusalem. And every great house he burned with fire.
14 また侍衛の長と共にいたカルデヤびとの軍勢は、エルサレムの周囲の城壁をみな取りこわした。
And the entire army of the Chaldeans, who were with the chief of the military, destroyed the entire wall all around Jerusalem.
15 そして侍衛の長ネブザラダンは民のうちの最も貧しい者若干、そのほか町のうちに残った者、およびバビロンの王にくだった人、その他工匠たちを捕え移した。
Then Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, took away some of the poor people, and some of the rest of the common people, who had remained in the city, and some of the fugitives, who had fled over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
16 しかし侍衛の長ネブザラダンはその地の最も貧しい者若干を残して、ぶどうを作る者とし、農夫とした。
Yet truly, some of the poor of the land, Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, left behind as vinedressers and farmers.
17 カルデヤびとはまた主の宮の青銅の柱と、洗盤の台と、青銅の海を砕いて、その青銅をことごとくバビロンへ運び、
The Chaldeans also broke apart the bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was in the house of the Lord. And they took all the brass of these things to Babylon.
18 また、つぼと、十能と、心切りばさみと、鉢と、香を盛る皿および宮の勤めに用いる青銅の器をことごとく取って行った。
And they took the cooking pots, and the hooks, and the psalteries, and the bowls, and the little mortars, and all the bronze vessels that had been used in the ministry.
19 また彼らは小鉢と、心取り皿と、鉢と、つぼと、燭台と、香を盛る皿と、灌祭の鉢を取った。金で作った物は金として、銀で作った物は銀として、侍衛の長は運び去った。
And the chief of the military took the water pots, and the censers, and the pitchers, and the basins, and the lampstands, and the mortars, and the little cups, whatever was gold, for the gold, and whatever was silver, for the silver,
20 ソロモン王が主の宮に造った二本の柱と、一つの海と、海の下の十二の青銅の牛と、台など、このすべての物の青銅の重さは量ることもできなかった。
as well as the two pillars, and the one brass sea, and the twelve oxen of brass that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord. There was no weight of brass left behind out of all these vessels.
21 この一本の柱の高さは十八キュビト、周囲は十二キュビトで、指四本の厚さがあり、中は、うつろであった。
Now concerning the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a cord of twelve cubits encircled it. Moreover, its thickness was four fingers, and the interior was hollow.
22 その上に青銅の柱頭があり、柱頭の高さは五キュビト、柱頭の周囲は網細工と、ざくろとで飾り、これらもみな青銅であった。他の柱もそのざくろも、これと同じであった。
And heads of brass were upon both. And the height of one head was five cubits. And little nets with pomegranates were upon the heads all around, all of brass. The second pillar was similar, and the pomegranates.
23 その四方に九十六個のざくろがあり、周囲の網細工の上にあるざくろの数は百個であった。
And there were ninety-six pomegranates hanging down; and there were one hundred pomegranates in all, surrounded by the little nets.
24 侍衛の長は祭司長セラヤと次席の祭司ゼパニヤと三人の門を守る者を捕え、
And the chief of the military took Seraiah, the first priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three keepers of the vestibule.
25 また兵士をつかさどるひとりの役人と、町にいた王の側近の者七人と、その地の民を募る軍勢の長の書記官と、町の中にいた六十人の者を町から捕え去った。
He also took from the city one eunuch who was in charge of the men of war, and seven men among those who served before the face of the king, who were found in the city, and a scribe, a leader of the military, who tested the new recruits, and sixty men from the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.
26 侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、これらの人を捕えて、リブラにいるバビロンの王のもとに連れて行った。
Then Nebuzaradan, the chief of the military, took them, and he led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27 バビロンの王は、ハマテの地のリブラで彼らを撃ち殺した。こうして、ユダは自分の地から捕え移された。
And the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah, in the land of Hamath. And Judah was carried away from his land.
28 ネブカデレザルが捕え移した民の数は次のとおりである。第七年にはユダヤ人三千二十三人。
This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
29 またネブカデレザルはその第十八年にエルサレムから八百三十二人を捕え移した。
in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred thirty-two souls from Jerusalem;
30 ネブカデレザルの二十三年に侍衛の長ネブザラダンは、ユダヤ人七百四十五人を捕え移した。この総数は四千六百人であった。
in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the chief of the military, carried away of the Jews seven hundred forty-five souls. Therefore, all the souls were four thousand six hundred.
31 ユダの王エホヤキンが捕え移されて後三十七年の十二月二十五日に、バビロンの王エビルメロダクはその即位の年に、ユダの王エホヤキンを獄屋から出し、そのこうべを挙げさせ、
And it happened that, in the thirty-seventh year of the transmigration of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evilmerodach, the king of Babylon, in the very first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and he brought him out of the prison house.
32 親切に彼を慰め、その位を、バビロンで共にいる王たちの位よりも高くした。
And he spoke with him for good, and he set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were after him in Babylon.
33 こうしてエホヤキンは獄屋の服を脱いだ。そして生きている間は毎日王の食卓で食事し、
And he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread in his sight always, all the days of his life.
34 彼の給与としては、その死ぬ日まで一生の間、たえず日々の必要にしたがって、バビロンの王から給与を賜わった。
And for his meals, a continual provision was allotted to him by the king of Babylon, a measure for every single day, until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
